Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Victor J. Stenger, an American particle physicist and religious skeptic, wrote in The New Atheism:Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009):

“Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings.”

The latter sentence refers to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The word “us” is replaced by “you” ("Science flies you to the moon; religion flies you into buildings") in many citations. “Moon” is infrequently replaced by ‘Mars” ("Science flies you to Mars; religion flies you into buildings").

Following a career as a research scientist in the field of particle physics, Stenger is now associated with New Atheism and he also writes popular science books. As of July 2013, he has published twelve books for general audiences on physics, quantum mechanics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, atheism, and pseudoscience, including the 2007 best-seller God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist. His latest book is God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson (2013).
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He is a strong advocate for removing the influence of religion from scientific research, commercial activity, and the political decision process, and he coined the popular phrase “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings”.

Google BooksThe New Atheism:
Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
By Victor J. Stenger
Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books
2009
Pg. 59:
Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings.

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and ScienceScience flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
By VICTOR STENGER
Added: Saturday, 31 January 2009 at 7:00 PM
Victor Stenger thought of this great original slogan as a possible ad for the bus campaign, or perhaps for something else? Maybe we could start running ads like this as banner ads on popular websites, too?